While looking over NorthxEast’s excellent guide to guerilla marketing, I was reminded of something that happened months ago when I was setting up this site.
But first let me tell you something about myself . Most people don’t actually call me Lucas (my youngest sister being one of a few exceptions). While I like the name, [...]

Did Google’s mail service kill another product line?
Shane Smith, CEO of Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) claims that it did. According to Smith, “Google have made a monstrous mess of their intellectual property requirements around their GMail product.” IIIR apparently had another product called ‘GMail’ before Google did — and claims that Google improperly acquired [...]

Techdirt has posed the question of whether it’s possible to plagiarize a photograph (Jonathan Lethem’s article The Ecstasy of Influence is particularly interesting).
Ironically, the post immediately before that is about how the patent system is keeping Indonesia from sharing avian flu samples (for more about this, check out HealthySimplicity’s post on Indonesia’s avian flu samples).
Jonathan [...]